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There is a single and very important point:
Big countries and big nations which are super-powers just like the USA, Russia, Britain, France or China have very different and much more far longing interests over the whole world.
So these bigger and much more powerful countries have the finincial and monetary ressources to defend all their wide spread interests all over the world with their superior ressources of military and econmic power.
Germany has not any interests outside of Germany. So there will never be any need that we would have to defend any of our non existing interests far away outside of our country.
In Europe we have absence of war and not yet peace at all if I look over to Britain and to the political class in France. But both countries I think are not about to invade ín Germany and other countries in the world which would be hostile to Germany I do not see.
So I can not see any purpose why we would need an army at all.
Supporting the British who hate us, I think can not be expected and the French and British politics are extremely different to the German politics so that I can see not any common opinion between them an us.
With Russia Germany has won a first class new and reliable partner, so that I can not see who wants to do any harm to the Germans, except the colonial masters in Brussels.
With Italy, Spain, Greece or Benelux we live in complete peace and friendship, so that an army would be more than useless.
If Brits and Americans want to have their adventures in Afghanistan, Iraq or elsewhere it is just their decision we have not to comment. But it is obviously not a German problem at all.
What Brits and Americans see as common interest are mostly not the common interests of other countries.
The Anglo-American point of view must not be the same view for other countries.
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